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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)When Heinrich Böll was born in December of 1917, one year before the end of World War I, Germany was starving. The years of violent political turmoil following the peace treaty of Versailles in 1920 left an indelible...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)M idnight on Saturday in Black London, and the people of the night emerge: the people that day cannot hide, the people who own the night. They are shadows converging on pre-appointed circles of sound, Da Word spread...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)With my father banished for good when I was eighteen months old, and none of Mother's many suitors taking up permanent residence in our lives, it was my grandfather Lee--the Chicago poet Edgar Lee Masters--who provided,...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)We stopped early in the afternoon to search for names on tombstones at a small church in the midst of a burial ground. We were headed to Glinsk, a place in County Donegal, named only on a surveyor's map discovered in a...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)Having been in the early 1970s a well-behaved math major (who subsequently wandered off into the wilds of poetry and foreign languages), I remain curious about poets, both contemporary and classic, who are similarly...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)Amy stopped the car, looked out and said, "This, once again, is not Heresville that we kept looking for last year." Lena in the back seat said, "And we got lost in the Hansel and Gretei forest and the witch drove by...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 76, Issue 4)In Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers (2000) I included a chapter about my closest English friend, Francis King. In the next decade I spent a lot of time with him during my annual visits and grant years in...